ERROR: Analysis of target '//src:perf_to_profile' failed; build aborted: error loading package '@com_google_protobuf//': Unable to find package for @rules_java//java:defs.bzl: The repository '@rules_java' could not be resolved.

[maxsei]

Not experienced enough how bazel build system works. I am running into this issue when building.

$ bazel build src:perf_to_profile

ERROR: /home/mschulte/.local/opt/perf_data_converter/src/quipper/BUILD:25:1: every rule of type proto_library implicitly depends upon the target '@com_google_protobuf//:protoc', but this target could not be found because of: error loading package '@com_google_protobuf//': Unable to find package for @rules_java//java:defs.bzl: The repository '@rules_java' could not be resolved.
ERROR: Analysis of target '//src:perf_to_profile' failed; build aborted: error loading package '@com_google_protobuf//': Unable to find package for @rules_java//java:defs.bzl: The repository '@rules_java' could not be resolved.
INFO: Elapsed time: 0.105s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (1 packages loaded, 21 targets configured)
    currently loading: @com_google_protobuf//

Here is some potentially useful information about my system that the issue could depend on

• g++

g++ (Ubuntu 7.5.0-3ubuntu1~18.04) 7.5.0

• bazel

Build label: 0.26.1
Build target: bazel-out/k8-opt/bin/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/BazelServer_deploy.jar
Build time: Thu Jun 6 11:05:05 2019 (1559819105)
Build timestamp: 1559819105
Build timestamp as int: 1559819105

• clang

clang version 6.0.0-1ubuntu2 (tags/RELEASE_600/final)
Target: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/bin

• java

openjdk version "1.8.0_292"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_292-8u292-b10-0ubuntu1~18.04-b10)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.292-b10, mixed mode)

• javac

javac 11.0.11

• protoc

libprotoc 3.6.1

[ZachMarcus]

I haven't seen that class of error for @rules_java before, and can't find record of anyone else running into it other than a brief mention in this random Eclipse commit from 2 years ago.

The problem shouldn't be related to perf_data_converter itself (if you wanted to look into it further, I'd recommend looking at what changes got into protobuf around that time). It could have been transient unavailability, or an actual bug introduced in a workspace file somewhere.

If you can still reproduce this from top of tree then I'll give it another look, but I'd wager this has resolved itself.

[maxsei]

I'll look that this soon. It was more a curiosity for me rather than anything super critical. If I can help understand this problem I'm glad to. I'll need a few days.

[nsajko]

I have a similar issue:

$ bazel build src:perf_to_profile
ERROR: /home/nsajko/src/github.com/google/perf_data_converter/src/BUILD:172:11: error loading package '@com_google_protobuf//': Unable to find package for @rules_pkg//:mappings.bzl: The repository '@rules_pkg' could not be resolved. and referenced by '//src:builder'
ERROR: Analysis of target '//src:perf_to_profile' failed; build aborted: Analysis failed
INFO: Elapsed time: 0.051s
INFO: 0 processes.
FAILED: Build did NOT complete successfully (1 packages loaded, 0 targets configured)

This is Archlinux, with Bazel 4.2.0 and protobuf 3.17.3.

[cptspacemanspiff]

I just wanted to reply that it seems like this is a issue caused by google protobuf moving from 3.19.x to 4.0 . This caused some sort of incompatibility with how dependencies are automatically pulled.

It can be worked around by linking against the older versions of the protobuf repo in perf_data_converter/WORKSPACE and replacing

http_archive(
    name = "com_google_protobuf",
    urls = ["https://codeload.github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/zip/master"],
    strip_prefix = "protobuf-master",
    type = "zip",
)

with

http_archive(
    name = "com_google_protobuf",
    urls = ["https://codeload.github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/zip/3.19.x"],
    strip_prefix = "protobuf-3.19.x",
    type = "zip",
)

similarly to get the unit tests working replace

http_archive(
     name = "com_google_googletest",
     urls = ["https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/master.zip"],
     strip_prefix = "googletest-master",
)

with

http_archive(
     name = "com_google_googletest",
     urls = ["https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-1.11.0.zip"],
     strip_prefix = "googletest-release-1.11.0",
)